Hurry Which passage from "Names/Nombres" best supports the inference that Alvarez started to write at a young age?
A. At the hotel my mother was Missus Alburest, and I was little girl, as in, "Hey, little girl, stop riding the elevator up and down. It's not a toy." B. "You know what your friend Shakespeare said, 'A rose by any other name would ell as sweet.''
C. The biggest gift was a portable typewriter from my parents for writing my stories and poems.
D. Someday, the family predicted, my name would be well-known throughout the United States​

At the hotel my mother was Missus Alburest, and I was little girl, as in, "Hey, little girl, stop riding the elevator up and down. It's not a toy."

the correct answer is the name of the author of the quotation appears at the text leading up to it   apex 2018

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”